Vehicle-pole



(No Model.) H. H. LOCKWOOD.

VEHICLE POLE.

No. 431,751. Patented July 8, 1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY H. LOCKIVOOD, OF OLEAN, NEW YORK.

VEHICLE-POLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 431,751, dated July 8, 1890.

Application filed May 31, 1890. Serial No. 353,839. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY H. LOCKWOOD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Olean, in the county of Cattaraugus and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vehicle-Poles; and I do declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 is a side view. Fig. 2 is a top View, and Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail.

This invention relates to improvements in vehicles more particularlyto the poles thereof.

The invention consists in the construction hereinafter pointed out.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter A indicates the usual back bar, and B the usual circle-bar. These bars have at their middles the aligned slots or mortises a and b. To these bars are secured the pole C. This consists of three strips 0 c 0 connected at their ends, butspaced apart at their middle. Passing through the pole transversely are the rods d, and surrounding these rods between the strips are the spools d, which keep these strips apart. This pole may be made of one piece, slitted so as to form the strips, or it may be made of several parts secured together. At the circle-bar B the top strip 0 passes on top, the other strip 0 below, and the middle strip 0 through the mortise b, all of the strips being secured to the circle-bar by a bolt 1). The middle strip 0 passes through the back bar A, and is longer than the top and bottom strip. These latter stop at and form a shoulder against the front of the back bar A. By the connection between the circle-bar and the three strips indicated those portions of the strips back of the circle-bar, as well as those portions in front, are spaced apart. This forms a truss in the pole bet-ween the back and circle bars, bracing them firmly.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The pole 0, consisting of the three strips made in one piece, in combination, with the circle-bar B and back bar A, the top strip being above, the "bottom strip being below the circle-bar and against the back bar, and the middle strip mortised into both bars, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HENRY H. LOCKWOOD.

Witnesses:

GRAHAM L. GORDON, W. H. SINGLETON. 

